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2023 BEST FILMS - Top 10
As the curtain falls on another remarkable year in cinema, it's time to reflect on the filmmaking achievements that lingered on our minds...
Jack Salvadori
Dec 25, 20238 min read
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Venice #80 - Riūichi Sakamoto | Opus
Play it again, Ryūichi. All it takes is a dark room, silence, followed by the right music, to properly lose ourselves, wandering in our...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 7, 20232 min read
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Venice #80 - Coup de Chance
All good things must come to an end. Even the best ones - the ones we’re so used to that they end up becoming ordinary elements in our...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 6, 20232 min read
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Venice #80 - The Killer
David Fincher takes us back to his comfort zone: serial killers. Diametrically opposite to Zodiac, where we never really even see the...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 5, 20231 min read
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Venice #80 - Menus Plaisirs, Les Troisgros
An amusing comedy can make us laugh, a compelling drama might even move us. Well, Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary makes us feel…...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 4, 20232 min read
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Venice #80 - Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos is back. And no, you haven’t seen anything like this before. Poor Things, but lucky us. With The Favourite, the Greek...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 2, 20232 min read
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Venice #80 - El Conde
It got me since the first poster was released a year ago - since I saw the pale silhouette of Augusto Pinochet looking down over a dark...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 2, 20232 min read
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Venice #80 - DogMan
Written & Directed by Scooby Doo And so even Venice now has its own Dogman… The film in question pales in comparison with its Cannes 2018...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 2, 20232 min read
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Cannes #76 - “Perfect Days” Review
Middle-aged Hirayama awakens at dawn, attentively trims his moustache, proceeds to water his plants, and chooses an upbeat tape to listen...
Jack Salvadori
Jun 6, 20232 min read
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Cannes #76 - “Asteroid City” Review
Gadzooks! Wes is back, and his latest work Asteroid City is no toad swindle. After wandering around European hotels, Japanese kennels,...
Jack Salvadori
May 26, 20232 min read
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Cannes #76 - “Killers of the Flower Moon” Review
Osage County, Oklahoma, the 1920s. Local Native Americans, now millionaires due to black gold findings on their territory, are in danger....
Jack Salvadori
May 24, 20232 min read
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Cannes #76 - “The Zone of Interest” Review
The Sun is shining bright. Teenagers share summer love; a mother cuddles her baby; children merrily play as vibrant flowers blossom in...
Jack Salvadori
May 24, 20232 min read
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Cannes #76 - “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
Sorry, you have dialled an incorrect destiny. I’ll be honest, this review is particularly painful to write. I love Indiana Jones. I grew...
Jack Salvadori
May 22, 20232 min read
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Cannes #76 - “Monster” Review
2018 Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-Eda is back on the Croisette with Monster, once again offering an intimate window into Japanese...
Jack Salvadori
May 22, 20232 min read
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2022 BEST FILMS - Top 10
It goes without saying that the following list is solely based upon my personal taste, being my own individual evaluation. Perhaps the...
Jack Salvadori
Jan 1, 20236 min read
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Venice #79: “Blonde” Review
The 2-hour-and-45-minute itch It seems to be a contemporary trend: who gets closer is the best. Almost an interactive game, place a frame...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 12, 20222 min read
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Venice #79- “The Whale” Review
Darren Aronofsky does it again- take a very sad personal story, a beloved washed-out actor, and offer him the role of a lifetime in one...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 12, 20222 min read
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Cannes #75 - "Crimes of the Future"
“Where is the art in tumorous growth?”, wonders a perplexed character in David Cronenberg’s latest cinematic fatigue, pretty much...
Jack Salvadori
May 29, 20222 min read
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Cannes #75 - "Holy Spider"
Saeed is a family man - a caring father, devoted husband, and occasional serial killer. Yes, a merciless executioner who hunts his prey...
Jack Salvadori
May 27, 20222 min read
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Cannes #75- "Triangle of Sadness"
It started with a spheric avalanche rolling into a square, and finally culminating with a triangle. We’re talking about Ruben Östlund’s...
Jack Salvadori
May 24, 20222 min read
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